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- Published on: 14 April 2016
- Published on: 14 April 2016How to interpret malaria testsShow More
Dyer et al. wrote an instructive review on how to interpret malaria tests (1). However there are two important caveats in the interpretation of these tests which they did not mention. First, a positive test does not necessarily confirm a diagnosis of malaria. Second, a positive test does not necessarily mean that malaria is the only diagnosis.
Strictly speaking, the tests described by Dyer et al. are parasite de...
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